RFK Jr met Republican diplomat days before controversial 2019 trip to Samoa, emails show

Emails reveal that Scott Brown, then serving as Trump's ambassador to New Zealand, met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. days before Kennedy's controversial 2019 trip to Samoa that preceded a measles outbreak. The records document how Brown, now a Republican Senate candidate, responded to Kennedy's travel plans during a period when vaccine hesitancy concerns were mounting. Kennedy has long promoted anti-vaccine messaging, and the Samoa outbreak killed dozens of people, mostly children, raising questions about the connection between vaccine skepticism and the public health crisis. Brown's involvement in facilitating or responding to Kennedy's pre-outbreak visit adds another layer to the documented intersection between Kennedy's activism and disease spread in vulnerable populations.